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Old 12-14-2014, 12:33 PM   #383 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Chula Vista View Post
Bull****. A piece of music only requires a medium. If 4'33 were an MP3 file is it still music?

There's f*cking boatloads of music in this day and age that never sees a stage or an audience. Does that not make it music?

I get what Cage was trying to do and he achieved it in context. But it's only an art experiment. To call it music is absurd.
In that context, yes, but it is written to be performed given the ideological nature of the piece.

And with all my Dali avatars I've had, absurd isn't really an insult for me .
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